diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index b65d8fa67c0..e39dec57f4f 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2191,7 +2191,7 @@ libopenconnect.so.5 openconnect-7.05_1
 libusbredirparser.so.1 usbredir-0.7_1
 libusbredirhost.so.1 usbredir-0.7_1
 libprotobuf-c.so.1 protobuf-c-1.1.0_1
-libutf8proc.so.2 libutf8proc-2.2.0_1
+libutf8proc.so.3 libutf8proc-2.9.0_1
 libnsutils.so.0 libnsutils-0.0.1_1
 libtoxcore.so.2 toxcore-0.2.0_1
 libgom-1.0.so.0 gom-0.3.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libutf8proc/files/libutf8proc.pc.in b/srcpkgs/libutf8proc/files/libutf8proc.pc.in
deleted file mode 100644
index c59a78a1831..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libutf8proc/files/libutf8proc.pc.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-prefix=/usr
-exec_prefix=${prefix}
-libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
-includedir=${prefix}/include
-
-Name: libutf8proc
-Description: UTF8 processing
-Version: @VERSION@
-Libs: -L${libdir} -lutf8proc
-Cflags: -I${includedir} -DUTF8PROC_EXPORTS
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libutf8proc/template b/srcpkgs/libutf8proc/template
index 3e27346d266..68d69abaea6 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libutf8proc/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libutf8proc/template
@@ -1,22 +1,22 @@
 # Template file for 'libutf8proc'
 pkgname=libutf8proc
-version=2.4.0
-revision=2
+version=2.9.0
+revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 configure_args="-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config perl netsurf-buildsystem"
 short_desc="C library for processing UTF-8 encoded Unicode strings"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
 license="MIT"
-homepage="http://www.netsurf-browser.org"
-distfiles="http://git.netsurf-browser.org/libutf8proc.git/snapshot/libutf8proc-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=7820cf02c37cbb3b977b406f276b384c6b4e22f992bc850592503bb3f5111049
+homepage="http://juliastrings.github.io/utf8proc/"
+changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliaStrings/utf8proc/master/NEWS.md"
+distfiles="https://github.com/JuliaStrings/utf8proc/archive/refs/tags/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=18c1626e9fc5a2e192311e36b3010bfc698078f692888940f1fa150547abb0c1
+
+if [ -n "$XBPS_CHECK_PKGS" ]; then
+	configure_args+=" -DUTF8PROC_ENABLE_TESTING=ON"
+fi
 
 post_install() {
-	vmkdir usr/lib/pkgconfig
-	sed "s|@VERSION@|${version}|" \
-		${FILESDIR}/libutf8proc.pc.in > ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libutf8proc.pc
-
 	vlicense LICENSE.md
 }
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libutf8proc/update b/srcpkgs/libutf8proc/update
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e6de75199a..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libutf8proc/update
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-site=http://git.netsurf-browser.org/libutf8proc.git/refs/